Quotes About Existence

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

If less is more, maybe nothing is everything.

La Grandeza existe; como mucho, coexiste. Su subtexto es que se joda el contexto.

Your thoughts had disintegrated into isolated words- key words, which you kept on mumbling, because you were afraid you would cease to exist if you forgot these words as well

Ik was een naakte letter zonder alfabet

Man is a successful animal, that's all.

Man is an animal that "arrived"; that is all.

And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.

C'est le passé. L'avenir sombre dans le passé dès qu'il a cessé d'être futur. Le présent n'existe pas. Vouloir l'éterniser, c'était éterniser le néant. C'est ce que j'ai fait !

Pour les gens qui vous entourent, vous n'êtes jamais là, toujours en retard ou en avance d'une seconde sur leur temps.

La réalité du monde ne lui apparaissait pas solide.

Il avait à peine besoin de disparaître pour ne plus exister.

Il craint de s'évanouir, de ne pas reprendre connaissance, de rester à jamais errant dans l'air bleu, fantôme dérisoire en suspens au-dessus des siècles, jusqu'à ce que l'appareil, détraqué, laisse un jour tomber ses cendres, en bouffées légères, sur une civilisation nouvelle.

Pour agir, Saint-Menoux va cesser pendant quelques secondes de se tenir hors du temps.

Nous sommes les occupants de cet espace et de ce temps. Nous sommes les ouvriers, manÅ"uvres, ingénieurs, d'une usine sans porte.

L'homme croit mourir pour défendre sa terre, sa femme, sa liberté, ses idées, alors qu'il meurt simplement parce qu'il est de trop.

By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else […] that exists. All these attributes are such that, the more carefully I concentrate on them, the less possible it seems that they could have originated from me alone. So, from what has been said it must be concluded that God necessarily exists

And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am not that assemblage of limbs we call the human body; I am not a subtle penetrating air distributed throughout all these members; I am not a wind, a fire, a vapor, a breath or anything at all that I can image. I am supposing all these things to be nothing. Yet I find, while so doing, that I am still assured that I am a something.

Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?

Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.

Nothing is made from nothing.

I am not a collection of members which we call the human body: I am not a subtle air distributed through these members, I am not a wind, a fire, a vapour, a breath, nor anything at all which I can imagine or conceive; because I have assumed that all these were nothing. Without changing that supposition I find that I only leave myself certain of the fact that I am somewhat.

Je pense, donc je suis; English: I think, therefore I am)

To think? That's it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.